Robert de Sorbon was a French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris. Born into a poor family in Sorbon, in what is now the Ardennes "département", Robert de Sorbon entered the Church and was educated in Reims and Paris. He was noted for his piety and attracted the patronage of the Comte d'Artois and King Louis IX of France, known as Saint Louis. Wikipedia
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